If you are on a Windows machine and you are updating your installation of the Android SDK through the AVD Manager in Eclipse, you may have come across an annoying error, that says the installation failed because a folder failed to be renamed or moved. This happens probably because Eclipse sort of locks the folder of your Android installation and thus no other application (in this case the AVD Manager) gains access to it. Here is a quick and easy solution for the problem.

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If you want to use the exciting new features that come with Android SDK 2.0 a.k.a. ‘Eclair’, you will have to update your development environment. Now if you are still on Android 1.5 you can simply follow this guide. Although that guide teaches you how to update to SDK version 1.6, the involved steps are actually the same for the new version. Now, if you are already running on Android SDK 1.6, you can use the new update method via the Android SDK and AVD Manager Tool. Sounds complicated? Well, don’t worry, it is actually really simple. Let me show you how to do it.

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Google released the new Android SDK version 2.0 a.k.a. ‘Eclair’. This major platform release includes exciting new features for users and developers. One of the biggest changes is the way you maintain an up-to-date copy of your SDK. Before, you had to download a new SDK package from the Android Developer website everytime a new version was released. Now there is a modular approach in which you use your Android SDK and AVD Manager to update you development environment. More on that in a later tutorial. Let us take a look at the new features.

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If you are new to Android development and you want to install all necessary software to get started, you can of course follow episode #1 in our tutorial series. Watching that video should get you up and running in no time. But what if you already have an Android development environment with an old SDK version? How do you actually update your installation to the latest version? Well, look no further, we have the answers you need.

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In case you haven’t noticed yet, Google released the new Android SDK version 1.6 today. It is based on the donut branch from the Android Open Source Project and introduces a couple of new features. Among the many new technologies and features are support for CDMA and additional screen sizes as well as a new gesture API, a text-to-speech engine and a new accessibility framework.

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So here is the second episode in our Android™ Development Video Tutorial Series. This time we will take a look at how to actually create a new project and run it within the Android™ emulator tool. Also, we’ll take a look at how to modify the text output, that our application renders on screen.

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